Word: homerically
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Storytellers, like journalists, have never been much for emphasizing the sweet, the decent, the well behaved. Odysseus, to pluck an early example from Homer, was a wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...
...been an unprecedented spree of hyperbole, but the newspapers called Lindbergh's landing "The biggest news story since the crucifixion of Christ." Well, obviously, it wasn't the biggest story since Roman times--but it might have been the biggest news story. News, after all, started out chronicling heroes. Homer and Vergil were only carrying on a tradition that started with cave paintings when they put the Odyssey and Iliad to verse. Praises of exceptional men were to be sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond...
...prove it was every geriatric's night, 38-year-old tony Perez accounted for the rest of the runs by drilling a home run in the eighth frame. The homer brought home Jim Rice, who had been waiting patiently at first, after receiving a base on balls from reliever Don Gleaton...
Friday, Army's Ted Brudvig seven-hit Harvard, allowing a three-run homer by Bauer and little else. The round-tripper, a fifth-inning shot that scored Scheper and Bruce Weller for the Crimson's only runs, was the shortstop's third of the year. He led the squad with four last season. at Army Harvard 000 030 000--3 Army...
...psychological and mythological science fiction, however, is definitely under way. Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos novels are notable for using a futuristic setting to peer into man's past and speculate on his future. If Lessing is the Athena of the genre, Frank Herbert is its Homer...